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Because access is not yet completely universal, Seton hopes that masters will offer to keep at least one entryway or common room accessible during off-hours that students can access if they feel they are in danger.
But now, he says, things are different. The pace of faculty diversification is stagnant. And with the passage of Proposition 209 in 1996, minority students--like himself--may not get that extra boost.
It is unconscionable, Noguera added, that there are only 98 African-American students in Berkeley's first-year class and two-thirds of the males are scholarship athletes.
But Noguera does not fully blame the Berkeley administration for the decline in student diversity, realizing that the school's hands are tied by Proposition 209, the 1996 California initiative ending affirmative action.
Berkeley may be powerless to increase diversity in its student body, but the diversity of the faculty is a goal well within their reach, as faculty committees are largely responsible for hiring new professors. Noguera says he finds these committees' inaction, and the fact that they have failed to increase...